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Do  It  By  All  Means 


By  William  Ashmore 

“Do  It  By  All  Means”  and  ‘‘Don’t  on  Any  Account” 
were  written  by  Dr.  Ashmore  some  time  before  his 
death,  but  were  not  published  during  his  lifetime. 

OUNG  Baptist  business  man.  You  are 
now  beginning  to  set  up  for  yourself. 
Junior  partner  at  first,  perhaps,  with  small 
interest  to  begin  with.  You  expect  to  get 
ahead.  Make  a  good  living.  Good.  The 
Lord  bless  you  in  it,  and  make  you  to  grow 
like  Joseph’s  fruitful  bough.  Even  a  fruitful 
bough  by  a  well  whose  branches  run  over  a 
wall. 

But  would  you  not  yourself  like  to  take  in  a 
partner?  Heed  my  suggestion.  Take  the 
Lord  Jesus  as  the  partner  in  your  business. 
Set  apart  to  him  some  percentage  of  the  pro¬ 
ceeds.  Whatever  you  choose,  being  much  or 
little,  only  mark  it  off  religiously  and  dispose 
of  it  in  ways  you  yourself  may  think  best  to 
subserve  the  Master’s  interest.  Let  him  share 
your  profits  and  he  will  share  your  losses  with 
you.  When  you  make,  what  a  pleasant  thing 
it  will  be  to  consider  that  you  are  sharing  with 
Christ  and  when  you  lose — you  may  some 
time — what  a  comforting  thing  it  will  be  to 
know  that  you  have  a  sympathizer  in  him. 
Your  gains  will  be  all  the  sweeter  and  your 
losses  will  be  all  the  more  bearable  when  you 
have  somebody  like  the  Lord  Jesus  to  help 
you  cariyr  the  load. 


Don  V  On  Any  Account 


/”\LD  Baptist  man  of  business.  You  are  a 
man  of  affairs.  You  have  got  your 
hands  in.  You  know  how  to  do  things.  You 
know  how  to  turn  over  a  dollar  so  as  to  make 
another  dollar.  In  your  own  line  you  are  an 
expert.  The  neighbors  all  praise  you.  You 
are  worthy  of  praise.  Your  success  in  life  is 
the  proof  of  it.  You  have  got  ahead  wonder¬ 
fully  in  gaining  a  competency.  You  have 
bank  shares;  you  have  stock  shares  of  various 
kinds.  You  are  able  to  take  it  easy,  and  you 
can  throw  off  a  good  share  of  your  burden  on 
the  junior  partners.  And  now,  because  you 
have  got  enough  laid  up  to  keep  you  and  your 
family  for  the  rest  of  your  life  you  propose 
retiring,  as  they  call  it,  and  becoming  a  gentle¬ 
man  of  leisure.  Well,  you  deserve  it. 

But  there  is  just  where  the  “Don’t”  comes 
in.  You  have  made  money  enough  for  your 
own  wants;  you  don’t  need  to  work  now,  and 
yet  what  an  amount  of  vigor  there  is  about  you. 
Why  waste  it  ?  Why  not  use  your  experience 
and  your  capacity  to  do  a  little  business  and 
make  a  little  money  for  your  Master.  His 
household  is  sometimes  awfully  barren  of  meat. 
Let  the  young  men  take  up  the  bulk  of  the 
work  and  have  their  share  of  the  profit,  but 
just  reserve  a  little  corner  in  your  office  at 
which  you  will  do  business  for  your  Master, 
and  turn  over  the  money  you  get  to  him.  You 
will  find  it  the  greatest  luxury  under  heaven. 


AMERICAN  BAPTIST 
MISSIONARY  UNION 

BOSTON,  MASS. 


Send  offerings  to  any  of  the  following: 

THE  DISTRICT  SECRETARIES 

Rev.  W.  E.  Witter,  D.D.,  Box  41,  Boston,  Mass. 

Rev.  C.  L.  Rhoades,  312  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York. 

Rev.  F.  S.  Dobbins,  1701  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Rev.  J.  S.  Stump,  1705  Seventeenth  St.,  Parkers¬ 
burg,  W.  Va.  ( Joint  District). 

Rev.  T.  G.  Field,  Granville,  Ohio. 

Rev.  S.  C.  Fulmer,  1738  Ruckle  St.,  Indianapolis, 
Ind.  ( Joint  District). 

Rev.  E.  W.  Lounsbury,  D.D.,  324  Dearborn  St., 
Chicago,  Ill. 

Rev.  Frank  Peterson,  D.D.,  407  Evanston  Build¬ 
ing,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  {Joint  District) . 

Rev.  Henry  Williams,  D.D.,  1233  Thirteenth  St., 
Des  Moines,  la. 

Rev.  I.  N.  Clark,  D.D.,  614  Massachusetts  Build¬ 
ing,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Rev.  C.  A.  Cook,  D.D.,  1503  Mission  Ave.,  Spokane, 
Wash.  ( Joint  District). 

Rev.  A.  W.  Rider,  906  Broadway,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Rev.  J.  C.  Armstrong,  D.D.,  Metropolitan  Build¬ 
ing,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

THE  TREASURER 

Chas.  W.  Perkins,  Box  41,  Boston,  Mass. 


860-lEd-15M-July,  '09 


